The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-03-16
sUMMARY..0F CONGRESS.
Senate Sessions.

55rH DAY.-Mr ingalls, was elected Pres.
dent of the Senate pro tenn, to succeed
Mr.. Sherman, resigned. :. Mr.. Hoar spoke
in favor of his resolution declaring it
as the Judgment OF the Senate
that under present circumstances no
negotiations should be undertaken with
Great Britain in regard to existing difficult
its object change or abolition Of any OF the
existing duties on imports. Referred to
was submitted from the President
vetoing bill for the erection Of a Post
Office building ut Lynn, Mass, on the ground
that there was no necessity for the expendi-
ture of 500, 600 or any other sum to- meet the
postal wants of the Government at that point
-. AT the evening session the resolution FOR
ON investigation Of the books Of the Pacific
railroads was passed.
56rH DAY.-Mr. Ingalls, entered upon che
duties of successor to Mr.. Sherman as presid-
ing officer :. The Consular and Diplomatic
and the Agricultural Appropriation bills were
passed. The report OF the conference CGm, il,
of real estate in the Territories to Ameri-
can citizens was agreed to....A bill ap-
propriating $20, 900 to complete the monument
to Mary, kle Mother of Washington, was
passed. 4. The conference report on the Indian
Appropriation bill was agreed to-. The bill
to reimburse depositors in the Freedmans
Savings and Trust Company was passed.
57rH DAY.-Messrs. Edmunds and other
Senators complained of the Houses delay in
passing Appropriation bills. House bills on
labor arbitration and preventing the employ
ment of convict or alien labor on public build
inrs were passed :. The Pleuro-P Pneumonia
bill was further considered and passed.
"A conference was ordered on the bill TO
provide for the adjustment Of land grants
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on the Retaliation bill was explained by MIR.
Edmunds. A bill prohibiting the mailing OF
newspapers and other periodicals containing
lottery advertisements was taken up and
5SrH DAY.-All the private pension bills on
the calendar were passed. :. The House bill
creating new circuit judge for New York
was amended and passed and O conference
asked .. The Naval Appropriation bill as
Diplomatic bill from Conference Committee
was agreed to. The report Of the confcrees
OH the River and Harbor bill was agreed to
III both houses.
59rH DAY.-Resolution were adopted au-
thorizing the Committee on Privileges and
Elections to continue during the recess
the Texas election investigation. The Naval
APPROXIMATION bill was amended and passed
80. MI. dOaT, ITOIu Cuo COu1eIouCe SOuLuuT
tee on the Pacific Railroad Inquiry bill, made
a report which was agreed to. The bill
then went to the President. -. The Senate
bill for the erection of a national memo
rial bridge over the Potomac, from Wash
ington to Arlington, was passed. 1t appro-
pirates $500, 900 to begin the bridge, which is
to be erected in honor Of Lincoln and Grant
The conference report on the Agricultur-
al Appropriation bill was agreed to....Mr.
Allison reported the Legislative, Executive
and Judicial bill, with sundry amendments.
GOTH DAY-The Senate reassembled as In
continuation of the previous days session
at 10 A. II. A message from the House an
nouncing non-concurrence in the Senate
amendments to the Naval Appropriation bill
was presented, and a conference was ordered.
AT e few moments before II the Senate
closed the fifty-ninth legislative day Of the
session by adjournment, and at II opened the
last legislative day Of the Forty ninth Con-
gress. Mr.. Hoar made an attack on the Speaker
Of the House, charging him with "a usurpa-
ton Of constitutional power" The Speaker
was defended by Messrs Beck and Blackburn.
bills providing for public buildings at
Dayton, Ohio, Sioux City, Iowa, Lafayette,
Ind, and Lynn, Mass, were all passed over
the Presidents vetoes.